What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Born This Way’ and ‘The Sinner’

Season 4 of “Born This Way” debuts and Bill Pullman reprises his role as detective Harry Ambrose in Season 2 of “The Sinner.”

What’s on TV

BORN THIS WAY AND RAISING TOURETTE’S 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. on A&E. In the two-part premiere of Season 4 of “Born This Way,” a group of young men and women with Down syndrome continue to pursue independence, romance and friendship. The season will culminate with the wedding of the cast members Cristina and Angel. “Raising Tourette’s,” a new six-part series about five families with children who have Tourette’s syndrome, will debut afterward.

KINGS OF THE DESERT8 p.m. on Smithsonian (check local listings). In the Kalahari Desert, lions stalk their prey and fight for survival during one of the worst droughts in decades. The dry season is usually a feast for the lions, but in these conditions they have to use creative tactics to survive.

WORLD WAR Z (2013) 8 and 10:30 p.m. on FXX. Brad Pitt stars in this apocalyptic zombie flick based on the novel by Max Brooks and directed by Marc Forster. The action begins when zombies attack Philadelphia, where a former U.N. employee, Gerry Lane (Mr. Pitt), lives with his wife and two daughters. Audiences liked the film better than some critics, but A. O. Scott, in his review in The New York Times, allowed that the zombies were “creepy and cool” and that viewers who want “to be diverted and mildly disturbed” would be satisfied.

THE SINNER 10 p.m. on USA. This detective drama is less a whodunit than a whydunit. In both seasons, detective Harry Ambrose (Bill Pullman) investigates a case in which the killer is already known; it’s his job to peel back the motive. Jessica Biel, who starred in the first season as a murderer, stays behind the camera in Season 2 as executive producer; the season follows Harry home after an 11-year-old boy, Julian Walker, poisons his parents. Also in this episode, Harry’s colleague, Heather, makes a startling realization about her best friend.

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Eliza Taylor as Clarke in Season 5 of “The 100.”CreditJack Rowand/The CW

THE 100 on Netflix. The fifth season of this apocalyptic young-adult drama arrives on Netflix. The season begins with nearly everyone back up in space or stuck in a bunker after yet another earthly calamity — except for Clarke (Eliza Taylor). She’s been living in the one still-green patch of land on Earth and has adopted a young girl, Madi, who also survived last season’s calamity. In season five, those who survived in space and in the bunker will return and do battle for the small oasis Clarke and Madi call home. Producers confirmed the show will return next year for a sixth season on the CW. In Watching in The Times, Laura Hudson writes that the show “quickly transcends teen drama and becomes a genuinely challenging sci-fi tale about the terrible choices people make when they’re teetering at the edge of survival.” EMMA L. McALEAVY